Hanger strap



Much 24, 1925.

A. GOTTLIEB HANGER STRAP Fild Ust.- 15, 1923 AL @ou z 'BJ v- GLM.Patented Mar. Z4, 1925.

` UNITED STATES ADOLF GOTTLILEB, OF BBiUNN, CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

HalvenlaY STRAP.

Application mea october 15, 1923. serial No. 668,742.V

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ADoLr Go'rrnrric, a citizen of the C'ZechoslovakianRepublic, and residing at V Hlinkae 146, Brunn, Moravia, Czechoslovakia,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating toHanger Straps, of which the following is a speciiication.

It has already been pro-posedto construct the upper part above .the gripof. hanger devices for passengers in train cars and the like soV as toact as a carrier for advertising matter. I-Iitherto two groups of suchhanger devices have been diierentia-ted which however are neither assimple as such devices should be nor display the advertising matter tothe best advantage, owing to space for this purpose being insuiiicient.One of these two groups ot hanger devices uses a deiinite frame-likestructure, which is suspended from the common supporting bar of the tramcar and to the lower part 'of which a gripping part is'attached. Thesearrangements haveA the disadvantage that they are complicated andexclude the use ol" the usual hand-shaped material for making suchhanger straps. It has also been proposed and such constructions fornithe second of the groups el hanger strapswith an advertising devicereferred to, to make the hand used tor the hanger strap considerablywider at one part and to use this part either directly as a. displayboard or indirectly as tho back of a iframe, into which the advertisingcards or' the like are slipped. It has further' been proposed to drawthe bandshaped parts of the hanger strap through strap buckles of flatframes, which rest against the band o the hanger strap and into theopcningvof which the advertising cards areslippcd. i

rlhis last named group oi hanger straps could never be ot any practicalimportance as the size of the said band part or traine in the plane atright angles to the plane of the loop of the strap, i. e. in the breadthdirection ol the band is very limited, since advertising boardsprojecting to such an cxtent beyond the width oft' the band as wouldgive them practical importance could-not be used for aesthetic reasonsor reasons of safety. y y

To overcome these drawbacks is the obj ect ot the prese-nt invention,according to which the problem which has never been solved in apractical manner of combining advertising devices with hanger straps forpassengers, is now solved by the advertising plates being placedtransversely of the open loops. Hence the advertising plates lieparallel to the plane passing through the open loop of the hanger, sothat without extending beyond the loop a considerably greater span thanwas hitherto the case is available for the advertising plates and apractical solution of the who-le of the problem may be said to have beenfound. Y

In the accompanying drawing a construe# tional 'form of such a hangerstrap is shown, n

Fig. l being a side view partly in section and i Fig. 2 a cross-sectionl The lower part of grip of the hanger strap l may be provided with acover 2 preferably of enamelled sheet metal.

According to the invention `the advertising plates are to lilltransversely the openingof the hanger strap, which is open or held open,above the grip part. In a simple constructional form the principaladvertising plates form indirectly or directly the walls lying` parallelto the plane, in which the open loop lies, of a casing, through whichthe band-shaped parts of the hanger are drawn and rests in any suitableman ner on the said bands. The frame-shaped casing 4 is 'furtherprovided with transverse bars 5, which' are held between the broaderside walls ol the casing and together with the narrow side-s of thecasing form as it were openings bounded on all sides, through which theband-shaped parts vof the hanger are drawn, so as to keep the latteropen. The casing 4i rests `forl instance on small' plates 3, throughwhich (he parts l of the hangerwstrap and which themselves rest on theedge of the cover The advertising'matter is stencilled eitl'ier directlyon the outer surfaces of the side walls el the casing Ll or advertisingplates are inserted. in suitable guides on the sidewalls of the casing4t. Y

lVhat I claim is v l. A hanger strap for the use of passengers in carshaving in combination with an open strap having a grip part and a singleloop for suspending it froina supporting ico advertising pla-testransversely filling the Y open part in the strap above the grip.

2. AV hangerstrap for the use of passen-v gers in ears having 1ncombinationv with av strap having a grip parti, means for holding thestrap open, and av Casi-ng transversely' filling the open part in thestrap and having Walls used for advertising matter above the grip, thestrap passing through said easing, and the easing being held det-aehablyon lthe stra-p.

3; A hanger strap, as claimed in ela-im 2,

and in which the means for keeping the strap open consists of transversebars secured to the easing.

4. A hanger-strap, as claimed in ela-im 2, and having detachable smallplates above the grip serving as a rest for the easing.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 2n name to this specieation.

ADOLF GOTTLIEB.

